Operational Performance

Who We Are

Momentum Partners is a leading independent management consultancy with offices and consultants across Australia and New Zealand. We see our difference as being the ability to integrate seamlessly with our clients to not just identify value, but to actually deliver it.

Our Team

We deliver transformational value at the highest level with leading domestic and international corporations. Our work typically covers issues of Strategy, Operational Performance, Organisational Effectiveness, Corporate Advisory, and Business Systems and Processes.

Who We Work With

Momentum’s consultants have helped clients from around the globe and across a diverse range of industries, from mining companies to retailers to health insurers, to achieve significant, lasting improvements. We work at all levels within organisations from Boards to front line staff to deliver results.

By focusing on the key drivers of good and bad performance, Momentum helps companies achieve significant value enhancements from their operating assets

Operational performance is focussed on improving the business outcomes of the core business. It may include financial, safety, environmental and people outcomes. The key question is how can we improve the performance of what we have?

Successful operational performance is usually increased or enhanced under the following circumstances:

Operational performance objectives are aligned with the vision, and corporate and business unit strategies
The business is prepared to analyse and accept the drivers of good and bad performance and focuses on the key impact areas
The company is prepared to invest in developing its skills and capabilities
Supporting processes, tools and templates are embedded within operations
Leaders are prepared to ‘walk the talk’

Operational Performance can be delivered in a piece-meal or transformational methodology. Below is an overview of our key operational performance service offerings:

Operational Performance Programs. As an end-to-end program, we conduct a full economic analysis of the core business to identify the key value drivers of profitability. The whole organisation is widely engaged and involved in the processs to ensure these analytical skills are developed within the organisation. Furthermore, we embed our implementation systems and tools throughout the organisation so that it can continuously improve long after our engagements have completed.

Operational Performance Methodologies. There are a range of tools and methodologies that can be used to improve the performance of a business. Momentum Partners has developed a range of customised tools and frameworks but also has experience in better known approaches such as Lean and Six Sigma. As well as utilising these tools and methodologies, Momentum Partners can also provide training and certification to improve the Operational Performance capabilities of an organisation.

Operational turnarounds. In some situations, a business can be haemorrhaging badly. Quick but not ‘knee jerk’ interventions are required to ensure rapid assessment and early cash flow generation.

Cost leadership. No matter what the prevailing economic conditions, organisations should always remain diligent about their costs whilst maintaining a value focus. Cost leadership comes in many forms and includes benchmarking, peer reviews, cascading KPIs, cost analysis and cost tracking.

Risk management. Risk is a critical cog in both the strategic and operational environments. Risk management is incorporated into all of Momentum Partner’s Operational Performance work and may include risk assessments; risk workshops; governance processes and the development of risk management processes.

Post-merger integration. Although PMI planning is often talked about, in practice it is done poorly. Momentum Partners has a comprehensive PMI execution model to ensure synergies, overhead optimisation, talent retention, change management planning, and cultural integration are fully captured and delivered.